A method for operation of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network and/or for flexibly providing, within the central office point of delivery, user-related traffic to at least one central functional entity providing at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery includes: in a first step, the user-related traffic is routed to a specific service edge node, wherein the specific service edge node is selected or determined, by at least one repository node, based on the at least one specific network termination node and/or the specific line termination node; and in a second step, the user-related traffic is provided to the at least one central functional entity.
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2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one central functional entity corresponds to a tunnel setup node, wherein the user-related traffic—after having been routed to the specific service edge node—is directed or steered towards the tunnel setup node, wherein the user-related traffic comprises user-related identifier information related to identity information of the at least one specific network termination node and/or related to the access node port.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user-related traffic—after having been routed to the specific service edge node—is duplicated and provided to the at least one central functional entity based on user-related identifier information, related to identity information of the at least one specific network termination node and/or related to the access node port.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user-related traffic received by the specific service edge node is subsequently provided to a backbone of the telecommunications network.
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December 2, 2019
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